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Spoo · #1 December 14th, 2004, 10:45 PM

I'm more of an "advanced user". If I was an expert, I'd run Linux.

Instar · #2 December 16th, 2004, 03:26 AM

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Spoo said:
I'm more of an "advanced user". If I was an expert, I'd run Linux.

hahahahahahahahahhahaah

I'm an "expert" and I'd run both if I had a spare machine (no dual boot for me). XP is more productive for me, by far. I'm planning on using Linux for my firewall/NAT box if I need to build one. I *might* build a Linux DB box, but then again, I can get SQL Server just as easily... (and its better than some pqsql stuff)

parabolize · #3 December 16th, 2004, 09:23 PM

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Spoo said:
I'm more of an "advanced user". If I was an expert, I'd run Linux.

I think the opposite of this. If you are starting to use a computer and all your using it for is office, email and web surfing linux or mac is what to use. Ubuntu or Knoppix is easier to get working than windows. Less people attack it, it comes with a security system and no activex. I think the ONLY hard thing to do when installing Ubuntu is using and remembering a complex user password. Everything else is the enter key. If you want to play all the games in the world you have to learn how to keep windows working or get them running in emulators.

Aiken · #4 December 16th, 2004, 09:47 PM

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parabolize said:

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Spoo said:
I'm more of an "advanced user". If I was an expert, I'd run Linux.

I think the opposite of this. If you are starting to use a computer and all your using it for is office, email and web surfing linux or mac is what to use. Ubuntu or Knoppix is easier to get working than windows. Less people attack it, it comes with a security system and no activex. I think the ONLY hard thing to do when installing Ubuntu is using and remembering a complex user password. Everything else is the enter key. If you want to play all the games in the world you have to learn how to keep windows working or get them running in emulators.

Sure, Apache, Oracle, MySQL, SAP, Samba/LDAP, etc are easy to use apps for newbies who can't get windoze to run properly

Renegade 13 · #5 December 15th, 2004, 12:07 AM

I've been running XP Home for since May 2003, and its given me no trouble. Well, almost no trouble

. Before that I had WinME, which I had to reinstall once since it screwed up (not sure how anymore), and before that Win95, which we got with our first computer back in '97. It never gave me any problems at all. So one re-install over 7 years of Windows use isn't too bad in my estimation.

Krsqk · #6 December 15th, 2004, 03:04 AM

Sure, Windows runs fine, as long as you don't touch anything. Heaven forbid you should want to adjust things, or remove the not-so-helpful search dog, or get rid of the Playskool interface. And don't even think about creating a custom install file.

I've done eleven re-installations of WinXP Home over the past year, seven of which have been in the past 3 weeks. I finally had to unplug my DSL before I reinstalled, since I had security breaches happen before I could even do Windows Update. Sure, it's more secure after updates (at least, we don't know what parts aren't secure), but it shouldn't be quite so full of holes or so cranky about giving up its death-grip on every aspect of my computing (anyone else want to run Windows Update in another browser than IE?).

Atrocities · #7 December 15th, 2004, 03:19 AM

Windows is windows is windows. Even the people at Microsoft find it hard to work with and feel that the tech support at microsft should be improved.... oh wait, they work there... how ironic.